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Smith enjoyed the trappings of money. He owned homes in fashionable sections of Southern California, like Pacific Palisades, where President Reagan used to live, and Marina del Rey. He also owned a brown Cadillac Seville as well as a $60,000 custom-made Cadillac convertible, an $84,000 cabin cruiser and a Beechcraft plane. When asked where his gold mine was located, Smith sometimes replied that his wife's family was wealthy. On other occasions he mimicked the TV commercials of the Smith Barney investment firm and said, "We make money the old-fashioned way. We earn...
...most visible Canadian investors are real estate companies. Toronto's Olympia & York Developments Ltd. owns 11 million sq. ft. of prime office space in Manhattan and recently won a competition to develop 6 million sq. ft. more in New York's Battery Park City. Another Toronto company, Cadillac Fairview, is now the largest single developer of luxury condominiums in the Miami area, having close to $300 million worth of housing under construction...
...LIES in peaceful quiet sleep, A vision came unbidden to his head: He saw the birds that fly, the beasts that creep, He saw the teeming living and the dead. Surveying all, he looked first to the north And at the pole, he caught sight of a gleam; A Cadillac in chrome was riding forth, Pulled by a twelve-man transition team. "What can this mean?" asks Bok of his stern guide, Who answers thus in Slavic-sounding voice: "This year a new man takes the Yuletide ride, Delivering gifts to rich and poor--rejoice!" Bok looks puzzled, turns...
...Borscht Belt routine is what his first-person narrators constantly imitate, no matter how much they want to sound like Chekhov or Henry James. Elkin's characters are prone to bursts of speechmaking, and their creator is also fond of the short set piece. Here is a Cadillac that has been sitting in the heat too long: "Whatever was plastic in the car . . . had begun to bubble, boil, the glue melting and the car's great load of padding rising yeastlike, separating, creating seams he'd been unaware of before, like the perforations on Saltines...
...east-some of it, at least-would revive and make it to market after all. The sparse grama and buffalo grass that sheep and cattle had been browsing, almost a blade at a time, would, by West Texas standards, flourish. No wonder that Tom Randall, San Angelo's Cadillac dealer, tripled his sales in the days after the rain...